Avaliação da eficácia do Programa Bolsa Família na segurança alimentar e nutricional de famílias beneficiárias no município de Porto Vera Cruz – RS

Abstract

Inserted in the field of human right to feeding, food and nutrition security are aimed to ensure the access to food in enough quantity and quality. In order to assure this right, Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) rises as a public policy, seeking to promote the food and nutrition security, contributing to eradicate extreme poverty and achieving citzenship by the most vunerable part of the population regarding hunger. Due to that, the evaluation of the effectiveness of this program in achieving the goal in ensuring the food safety was the general objective of this dissertation. This study was developed through a field reseach, by applying the data collection instrument in 74 families benefited by the PBF in the municipality of Porto Vera Cruz/RS. The analysis of the data collection was made by descriptive statistical tecniques to describe the sample and Fish exact test to study the influencer factors. From the data, was possible to verify that the population researched is mostly formed by women, from 40 to 59 years old, they show a low level os schooling, working predominantly in agriculture and have a familiar montly income of half of minimum wage. This study revealed that more than half of the families are in a food insecurity situation, showing light and moderate severity. These results show strong evidences that may be caused by low education levels, precarity in the job insertion and insufficient income. Thus, it is fundamental to implement stronger public policies to allow the municipal government to articulate actions in different sectors of government and society, which requires agreements that engage the production, selling, quality control, access and the use of food in family levels.